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Landmark Ruling in India for Survivors of Sexual Abuse with Disabilities


I interviewed a woman with a psychosocial disability who was gang raped in Kolkata in 2014, who said police told her, “She’s mental, why should I pay attention to her?” This is exactly the kind of thinking that needs to shift. The recent judgment emphasizes that testimony of a person with a disability should not be devalued or the person deemed incapable of testifying on grounds of a disability. 
The judgment notes that the rape survivor identified the perpetrator by his voice, which was familiar to her, and stresses that such testimony should be given equal legal weight as a visual identification. While the incident took place in 2011, before adoption of the Criminal Law Amendments Act of 2013, a law enacted following the gang rape and murder of a young woman in Delhi, this ruling demonstrates that accommodations can be made for people with disabilities in the judicial process. ....

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